Overall it is too bad you can't get to the States. I am pretty sure a single guy can live cheaper than your expenses and be close to poker.

imagine moving away from home to play in lower quality games and pay tax on winnings with the same crappy online infrastructure

if i was OP and wanted to move countries i would choose a prettier country without poker tax and stars available

Updattttttttte

So the last week or so I've been in somewhat of a limbo-like state. I'm looking for a new place. Checked out 3-4 different places already and have 4 on the cards tomorrow. Sent in my first application today as well! It's kind of a pain in the ass filling out these applications with no real "proof of income" and since I'm currently being sublet to, no real "living history" either. So I'm pretty much offering to pay bond + lease up front in cash to help get my application accepted. Who knows what'll work.

Poker-wise, I've been mucking around on the apps a bit, I think I'm fairly close to break-even overall on there the past few days. Live, I'm down $230 after tonight's session combined with previous session.

Here's a hand I played tonight...

$2/$3 homegame, 8 handed

Hero opens A5hh UTG two callers IP
Flop $85: K62hhh
Hero cbets $25, MP raises $55, BTN calls, hero 3bets to $150, MP folds, BTN calls.
Turn $440: 6o
Xx
River $440: Jo
Hero bets $200, villain shoves for $415 total, hero vomits everywhere...

Villain is notoriously the tightest player at the game but occasionally clicks buttons and just donk jammed river as a bluff the previous hand and won.

My diagnosis is that villain has exactly 22 or 66 here about 100% of the time. 4 combos. I'm no mathematician but I think if we can find just 1 combo of worse flushes here, we can call profitably. Given turn went xx, it's probably fairly unlikely though. Can we make a VERY sick fold here!?

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Hoping to get approved for an apartment and moved in within a week or so so I can begin putting some volume in again. Feels crappy to be slacking volume-wise and losing live and online. This thread will probably take a pretty big swing in direction shortly and we maaay even see a new PGC to replace this one shortly. More on that once I move into my new place etc.

im actually really curious how you go with the rent search. from what i've been told it's basically close to impossible to rent (in sydney at least) with no proof of income and no renting history even if you offer to pay up front

on the flop i think flatting is best blocking Ah bluffs and allows extra player to make mistakes with trash hands. river is snap call imo. he has 22(3) and 66(1). he also has worse flushes and KJ spazzing out because u didn't bet turn

Why aren't you betting turn?

Fml gonna be so tilted if these applications get rejected. Will have to doctor up a whole backstory to get the bluff through lol.

Also raised to flop because MP was a fish and wanted to pile money in as soon as possible i.e. before the nutworst turn card comes. Vs good players tho I'd just call. I think having Ah, it's hard for villains to be bluffing much so we may as well just try cooler flopped sets / flushes otf.

Because it's a v bad card for me and I honestly just want to throw my hand away. Villain can literally only have 66, 22, and some worse flushes. Vs that range I think checking is probably fine.

Daily Update - Friday 02/02

Hours Played: 4.7
Game: 2/5
Profit: $1,037

Long day inspecting apartments today. Found 2 I really liked and I have sent/am sending applications for both of those. Dragged myself to the casino even though I was fairly tired because I can't afford to just miss such a high EV day of the week! Ran fairly well. One hand which is probably genius/extremely bad...

HJ opens $20, BTN calls, SB calls, Hero in BB calls with KJ. Didn't want to 3bet because average stack of all the villains in the pot was ~$300ish.

Flop $80: Q64r
Checks through
Turn $80: 9ss
SB checks, Hero checks, HJ bets $45, BTN calls, SB calls, Hero raises to $250, HJ folds, BTN folds, SB tanks and calls.
River $670: 5o
SB... who has exactly $70 left checks... Hero has no option but to go for it... We size up his stack (yup, still $70) and proceed to cut out and place a bet of exactly $231...



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Watching Molly's Game tomorrow. Should be good. Hopefully get to the casino later in the evening.

Horrific. Glad it worked out though....LOL.

Molly's game...amazing

Mum didn't raise no quitter.

For renting applications provide a year or so of bank statements and say you're a day trader/in crypto or whatever imo. If you have enough money that they're confident you'll pay and they aren't worried that you're a criminal you should do okay, just might not be top of the pile.

Moving sucks.

Sick HH

Yeah she's a pain. Hopefully hear back re a few applications shortly!

PPPoker/Pokermaster Meta Adjustments

I'm struggling at the moment to adjust to the meta of Pokermaster/PPPoker. These games are a weird hybrid between Stars online and LLSNL and I'm not sure what blanket strategy to go for here.

I feel like part of me wants to implement an identical strategy I'd play at the casino, and then another part of me thinks that now because we're playing online, we can profitably play 8% 3bet strat.

I've also been struggling a bit with short handed on PPPoker. Like 3-4 handed vs guys playing 65%+ VPIP and 3betting every hand pre flop. Really difficult to defend properly when they're barreling every street post and you have a marginal holding and your entire strategy is based around making strong hands.

Also, the PM games I'm playing on usually have an ante as well which makes for another interesting dynamic - again, forcing you to defend more with weaker hands which goes against the overall strategy.

If anyone has any tips for adjusting to play on these apps, I'd love to hear from you!

jus play tight, sounds like they are aggro and wide

Meale getting run over by asian whales?

It's tuff to be so tight when there's an ante involved. But yeah, obv that'll be my approach. Some clubs require a 30vpip for you to play in though, the juiciest clubs too!

It's not even funny ATM :'(

gl gl. it sounds like pppoker is a good opportunity.

It is. I play a 60NL holdem game which is pure bonkers. Issue is getting enough tables up to grind - there's not as much volume as on PM.

On that note, if anyone has any dope PPP clubs, hmu. Much prefer the software over PM.

Calling All Computer Geeks!

Yo guys, need a component list for the new PC I want built. Its purpose will be to run several instances of Android emulators simultaneously (for le app grind ofc). We're talking 6-8 or so.

I was advised to go for 32gb ram and as good of a processor as possible (i7 minimum). That's pretty much it. I don't game so don't need a hardcore video card or anything.

Basically I want to do it as cheaply as possible while still getting 32gb ram and a good processor. Obv motherboard needs to be 4k compatible etc.

Can anyone do up a component list for me? I want to get UMart to build it because last build my friend and I did we fk'd up the audio port or some **** and the audio's fkd on my current PC.

Any tips much appreciated!

A few posts back you said to Mike Starr you would explain this app thing. I was about to ask the same question. Point is your gameplan/lifeplan appears to be getting pretty confused. This could be a good thing (evolution) or a very bad thing (random plan adjustment, because you are not achieving your goals).

Back at the start of this journey you set yourself some pretty clear goals, you might want to revisit them.

FWIW, I've long held the opinion that playing cash live is probably the optimum method of sustaining a life as a poker pro (because of the edges & also because random government intervention is less likely). If you can't make live cash stick because of the casino/living environment in Australia (costs etc) you might want to consider:

> emigrating, or,
> binning the whole idea.

Just ask on Whirlpool Forums - they will help.

Cheers

Let's hope it's a good thing! I'm very happy making $30 an hour grinding in the casino but fact is, in Australia, that's about the roof wrt EV (short of playing 5/10 in Sydney, but for aforementioned reasons, that's not doable for me atm).

Not happy with my living situation, I decided to give the app/online grind a go. I feel like it'll definitely be very +EV compared to staying in Brisbane casino and grinding 2/5 forever...

This will all become much clearer over the next week or two as I revisit and ammend my yearly goals.

Thanks bro, I posted on Tom's Hardware and no one replied

Looking to go with this for the time being, unless anyone has any suggestions/thinks this is baaad:

CPU:
Intel Core i7 7820X Eight Core LGA 2066 3.6 GHz CPU Processor
$775

PSU:
Corsair 850W TX850M 80 Plus Gold Power Supply Corsair 850W TX850M 80 Plus Gold Power Supply
$169

Cooling:
Noctua NH-L9x65 Lower Profile Multi Socket CPU Cooler Noctua NH-L9x65 Lower Profile Multi Socket CPU Cooler
$79

Wireless adapter:
D-Link DWA-582 Wireless AC1200 Dual Band PCIe Desktop Adapter D-Link DWA-582 Wireless AC1200 Dual Band PCIe Desktop Adapter
$59

Audio card:
Asus Xonar DG PCI Gaming 5.1 Channel Dolby soundcard Built-in Headphone AMP,GX Asus Xonar DG PCI Gaming 5.1 Channel Dolby soundcard Built-in Headphone AMP,GX
$30

SSD:
Samsung 500GB SSD 850 EVO Samsung 500GB SSD 850 EVO
$204

HDD:
Western Digital Blue 1TB SATA3 HDD 64M Caviar Blue WD10EZEX Western Digital Blue 1TB SATA3 HDD 64M Caviar Blue WD10EZEX
$62

RAM:
GeIL 32GB Kit (2x16GB) DDR4 EVO X RGB LED Dual Channel C16 2400MHz GeIL 32GB Kit (2x16GB) DDR4 EVO X RGB LED Dual Channel C16 2400MHz
$483

Case:
SilverStone Precision PS08 Micro ATX Black Case SilverStone Precision PS08 Micro ATX Black Case
$49

OS (lol):
Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64bit OEM DVD Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64bit OEM DVD
$125

Motherboard:
Gigabyte B250M-D3H LGA 1151 mATX Motherboard Gigabyte B250M-D3H LGA 1151 mATX Motherboard
$118

GPU:
Gigabyte GT710 PCIe x8 1GB DDR5 DVI HDMI D-SUB Video Card Gigabyte GT710 PCIe x8 1GB DDR5 DVI HDMI D-SUB Video Card
$49

Total: $2.202k

I'm banned from giving life advice but was happy to see this post.

+1 imo

Hey look we'll see how the online grind goes for a bit. If it doesn't work out, I'll elope to Mongolia and live off the land or some sht..

Got cost of PC down to $1.5k which I'm stoked with - a mate's going to help me build it on Thursday. Also should have the internet hooked up in my new place sometime over the next few days too.

I have no clue about PCs but when I was shopping for my parts, I think I remember WD Black HDD having much better reviews than the other colored ones and the price difference was negligible.